Hundreds of settlers began a protest march from the West Bank
settlement of Beit El to Jerusalem on Monday in protest of Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to evacuate five buildings in the
Ulpana neighborhood.

The marchers are scheduled to arrive on Wednesday at a protest tent
outside the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, where dozens of
Ulpana residents are staging a hunger strike. The marchers’ aim is to
support two outpost regularization bills scheduled for a Knesset vote
on that day.

The marchers, reportedly mostly teenage girls, will stop at the
outposts of Migron and Givat Asaf on the way to Jerusalem to express
solidarity with the residents of those communities, where numerous
homes were also built on private Palestinian land.

Netanyahu presented his plan for the relocation of the residents of
the illegal Ulpana neighborhood in Beit El during the weekly Sunday
morning cabinet meeting.

The prime minister’s plan is a three-stage one which would move the
buildings in question several hundred meters away, reinforce existing
settlements by adding homes to them, and eliminate the possibility of
future legal challenges. The plan is still pending approval by
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein.